How To Use Retrogress In A Sentence
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In spleenful moments, it seems to me that the most depraved of city-dwellers has flashes of enthusiasm and self-abnegation never experienced by this shifty, retrogressive and ungenerous brood, which lives like the beasts of the field and has learnt all too much of their logic.
Old Calabria
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In addition to valuable investigations of fossil-bearing beds in the Argentine, he made some excellent general suggestions, such as that the pithecoid apes, like the baboons, do not stand in the line of man's ancestral stem but represent a divergence from it away from humanity and toward a retrogressive bestialization.
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
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A beggarly tribute to all that is retrogressive, stupid, and mean.
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China will surely achieve progress, the present retrogression is only a temporary phenomenon.
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At a time when cities such as George Town and Malacca are winning international recognition for their preservation of heritage sections of their cities, the Sarawak government's retrogressive efforts to wipe out remaining vestiges of Kuching's architectural heritage are incomprehensible.
Undefined
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By contrast, he writes, "when living standards stagnate or decline, most societies make little if any progress toward any of these goals, and in all too many instances they plainly retrogress.
Indian Food, Hold the Growth!
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I'm not advocating that women retrogress to the brainless housewives of the '50s who spent afternoons baking macaroni sculptures and keeping Betty Crocker files.
The Failure Of Feminism
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In other words, her skills have retarded into that of one unfit to practice such arts, though she herself is unaware of this retrogression.
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And in 1985, when Grace Bumbry was a sensation as Bess in a Metropolitan Opera production, she slammed the opera: "I thought it beneath me, I felt I had worked far too hard, that we had come far too far to have to retrogress to 1935.
Jesse Kornbluth: An African-American Woman Wrote To Me: The Help Makes Us Look Ignorant & One-Dimensional
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Society in the past 50 years has known an extremely one-sided development, with science and technology making great strides while social life and culture have stagnated and retrogressed.
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Relict coarse, lath-shaped omphacites are variably preserved, but all are either partially retrogressed to pargasite or have been pseudomorphed by diopside-plagioclase symplectites.
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All six called for peaceful and democratic elections with the leader of the main opposition Ernest Koroma of the All People's Congress (APC) stressing that "the polls will put Sierra Leone in a position to advance or retrogress".
ANC Daily News Briefing
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They oppose communism, purge those who hold different views, hinder progress and favor retrogression.
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This naturalness, though it may appear like denial of the knowledge-systems of modernist culture, is not retrogression to pre-modernism.
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If the Government plans to revert to the earlier situation, it will certainly be an act of retrogression.
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Sir Monty has written a popular appreciation of Rembrandt which Howard Belsey, himself an art historian, though of a more highbrow bent, has denounced for its retrogressive stance.
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In addition to valuable investigations of fossil-bearing beds in the Argentine, he made some excellent general suggestions, such as that the pithecoid apes, like the baboons, do not stand in the line of mans ancestral stem but represent a divergence from it away from humanity and toward a retrogressive bestialization.
Appendix A. The Work of the Field Zoologist and Field Geographer in South America
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I do hope that we were able to retrogress you back into the man our daughter loved, not the tepid person you currently are.
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We also must wonder that if unilinear progress in the mode of production can instead have phases of retrogression is there a possibility of World War III?
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Worse, because of its alignment with the methodological approach of mainstream economics, he claims that the new economic geography represents retrogression from the earlier authors.
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It cannot be a matter of indifference whether a certain stream appears earlier or later than its counterstream, for the effect of a repression cannot be made retrogressive; a temporal deviation in the composition of the components regularly produces a change in the result.
Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex
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It's not the language of foreclosure or exclusion or retrogression.
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No politician is talking about ideas or programs to liberate the people from the current economic retrogression and social decay.
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Conclusion The external application with rhubarb mirabilite can prevent the margin fat liquefaction, promote the margin healing, and reduce the margin induration retrogression time.
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His point was not that we should in fact retrogress, but that the future and the present can be imagined differently.
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One applauds progress, the other retrogression.
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In Britain we already have enough retrogressive and uninteresting composers of our own - there's no need to import them.
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It seems that rather than advancing our understanding of the causes behind boom-bust cycles, they have contributed to a further retrogression of the economic discipline.
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It is sexist, retrogressive, mean-spirited and ungallant, and reflects very poorly on us as a nation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Therefore, if the law stipulates that it is necessary to reward people who find lost property and return it to its owner, it marks a moral retrogression of our society.
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If carried far enough, the process of redistribution results in economic stagnation and economic retrogression.
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So while Black communities retrogress into crime, poverty and hopelessness, with Black families in tatters and living in a kind of pervasive chaos that exists on a day-to-day basis, these Black leaders offer carefully crafted “politically correct” speeches, sport natty Armani suits, and boast about how they are the only “Blacks on the block where white people live.”
The Invisible, Irrelevant Black Leadership
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Mr Kanyama, who said some of the methodologies that some companies had employed were repugnant, said tax evasion was a retrogressive habit which reduced the amount of tax being paid to Government.
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The cultural retrogression is not a new problem facing the city, but it has become really serious in the past 10 years, according to Gu Jun, a sociologist at Shanghai University.
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The whole area will retrogress into chaotic conditions.
CNN Transcript May 24, 2006
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The world is not to be understood as a complex of ready - made things, but as a complex of processes, in which the things apparently stable, no less than their mental images in our heads (Gedankenabbilder), the concepts, go through an uninterrupted change of coming into being and passing away, in which despite all seeming accidentality and tem porary retrogression, a progressive development asserts itself in the end
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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Perhaps the problem of retrogression lies not in the planets themselves but in our understanding of the system of planets gathered about our Sun, and the relationship that the planets have with the Sun as seen from our geocentric viewpoint.
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It's been struggling uphill some of time, and retrogressing much of the time, as well.
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No politician is talking about ideas or programs to liberate the people from the current economic retrogression and social decay.
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I think that is something we are getting back towards, and that's not in a retrogressive sense, just in the sense that people are saying Shakespeare can be relatively popular entertainment.
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The institute was to document the condition of the sculptures, investigate the sources of their retrogression, and prevent further deterioration.
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While we were absent even these few months from the great centers of civilization, tremendous advances had been made in air-ships and the thousand and one other modern phases of human development, but evolution in the world of Nature as we observed it was only destructive -- a world-wide katabolism -- a retrogression often discernible from month to month.
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation
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Our nobly intended welfare programs may be encouraging dysgenics-retrogressive evolution through disproportionate reproduction of the genetically disadvantage … We fear that 'fatuous beliefs' in the power of welfare money, unaided by eugenic foresight, may contribute to a decline of human quality for all segments of society.
Climate Progress
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Holy Church, is our philosophy of life and we hold that any attempt to educate a youth in what we call secularism is a retrogression to a lower level than that of pre-Christian culture.
Catholic Problems in Western Canada
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While these churches initially viewed gospel music as retrogressive, they were gradually won over.
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Hostile commentators seized on this to paint a picture of continuing retrogression to which the regime's final collapse in the late 1940s in an orgy of corruption induced by hyperinflation, lends colour.
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In its absence China would retrogress into division and chaos, and modernization would become impossible.
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His symphonic scores revisited the motivic and symphonic aesthetic of the 19th century, a move regarded as retrogressive by modernist critics.
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Should we continue to stagnate or retrogress while the rest of the world moves forward?
ANC Daily News Briefing
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In differing degrees they represent a retrogressive approach to the Aids epidemic that could cost tens of thousands of lives.
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In its absence China would retrogress into division and chaos, and modernization would become impossible.
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The sun-centred system implies, for instance, that Jupiter's retrograde motion is more pronounced than that of Saturn, and that the frequency with which retrogression occurs is greater for Saturn than for Jupiter.
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This proves that her determination to fight AIDS and to seek justice is retrogressing rapidly.
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Deviate from socialism and China will inevitably retrogress to semi - feudalism and semi - colonialism .
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A lot of what is on our airwaves is not the kind of thing we want to institutionalise, and to not have a code, we think we have retrogressed.
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‘Arms control and disarmament are at a critical moment, when failure to advance would mean retrogression,’ he said at the three-day conference.
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Our epoch is characterized by startling advances on the one hand and conditions of extreme socioeconomic retrogression and distress on the other.
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Sir Monty has written a popular appreciation of Rembrandt which Howard Belsey, himself an art historian, though of a more highbrow bent, has denounced for its retrogressive stance.
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The evening of Saturday, April 21, the president and Adlai Stevenson delivered separate speeches at the meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editors at the Statler Hotel in Washington.41 Stevenson described the past three years as a period of retrogression in foreign affairs and grabbed headlines the next day by proposing a moratorium on nuclear tests and channeling foreign aid through the United Nations.
Eisenhower 1956
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Melanie let out a few barks, but slowly they retrogressed to a bitter growl.
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At a time when cities such as George Town and Malacca are winning international recognition for their preservation of heritage sections of their cities, the Sarawak government's retrogressive efforts to wipe out remaining vestiges of Kuching's architectural heritage are incomprehensible.
Undefined
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We're not trying to create the '60s or go for some retrogressive feeling.
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In its absence China would retrogress into division and chaos, and modernization would become impossible.
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Deviate from socialism and China will inevitably retrogress to semi - feudalism and semi - colonialism .
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The rhythms, sequences, waves and patterns with respect to the retrogression and direct motion of the planets is symphonic in its holistic entirety.
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In its absence China would retrogress into division and chaos, and modernization would become impossible.
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Though London was, apparently, unaware of either the technical or psychological area in which he was working, his fascination for the device gives another dimension to the studies of his naturalistic literature. 1 Finally, to note the ways in which London's artistry is at work at this point in his career, there is considerable ingenuity in the somewhat original fashion in which London parallels the “retrogression” of Buck to the “progression” of Fang.
Le Milieu, Le Moment, La Race: Literary Naturalism in Jack London's White Fang
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Europe had retrogressed almost to a primitive way of life, wherein learning was preserved largely in the monasteries.